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How Good is Your PMO ?

by Leigh Coutie

Coutie offers a offers a simpler and more pragmatic approach to PMO capability assessment.  Details of the assessment tool is provided which can be used to baseline a PMO’s performance in a flexible manner and to identify specific performance improvement areas.

How Project and Portfolio Management Solutions Are Delivering Value to Organizations

by Randy Perry and Eric Hatcher

This paper describes the experiences of 13 highly successful companies and why they chose PPM solutions.  The pain points and benefits are discussed and an approach is proposed to justify the acquisition of an PPM solution.  Significant benefits include a 37% reduction in project cost, 14% increase in productivity, project failure dropped 59% and payback occurred in 7.4 months.

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail

by Professor John P. Kotter

This landmark paper by Prof Kotter is vital for understanding why the implementation of PPM enterprise systems, such as PSNext run the risk of failure in organisations. This should be read by everybody who intend to implement PSNext in their organisation.

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